. Productive soils; the fundamentals of successful soil management and profitable crop production. Soils. 142 TILTH AND TILLAGE without breaking it very much, and in a way which faciUtates the decomposition of the sod. Ordinary sod is turned best with a sod plow, or one having a moldboard adapted for either sod or stubble (Figs. 72 and 78). The moldboards of such plows are somewhat longer, and turn the. FiQ. 75.—Wrong way \JA. ^X\J YV ILM.^ k3*-' (Humid fanning.) furrow slice more slowly than those of the stubble plows. Sod turned properly is much more easily made into a good seed bed than
. Productive soils; the fundamentals of successful soil management and profitable crop production. Soils. 142 TILTH AND TILLAGE without breaking it very much, and in a way which faciUtates the decomposition of the sod. Ordinary sod is turned best with a sod plow, or one having a moldboard adapted for either sod or stubble (Figs. 72 and 78). The moldboards of such plows are somewhat longer, and turn the. FiQ. 75.—Wrong way \JA. ^X\J YV ILM.^ k3*-' (Humid fanning.) furrow slice more slowly than those of the stubble plows. Sod turned properly is much more easily made into a good seed bed than when poorly or improperly plowed (Figs. 75, 76 and 77). A stubble plow, under average conditions, cannot turn sod the way it should be turned (Figs. 78 and 79. Compare with Fig. 77).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Weir, Wilbert Walter, 1882-. Philadelphia London, J. B. Lippincott company
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